Description:
Needlework Memorial for Harriet Davenport, Harriet Piere at Miss Tolman's School, Boston, Massachusetts, c. 1813, depicting a woman dressed in mourning clothes facing a monument with an urn above inscribed "In Memory of/Miss Harriet Davenport who departed/this life Decr 12th 1813 AE 24," a second similar monument to the left reads "In Memory of/Miss Mary Glover Pierce, who/departed this life Septr. 1st 1825/AE 13.," with embroidered trees in the background and flowered lawn in the foreground, eglomise mat with gilt lettering "Wrought by Miss Harriet Piere AE 12 at Miss Tolman's school," in a molded gilt and gold-painted frame, (sight) ht. 12 3/8, wd. 13 1/4 in.
Note: Genealogical sources document Harriet Davenport born in Dorchester, Massachusetts, November 16, 1789, and died in Dorchester, December 15, 1813.
Estimate $800-1,200
Minor fading to silk, paint flaking from eglomise mat, frame is gold painted and has gesso losses.
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Keywords
Mary Glover Pierce, Harriet Davenport, Harriet Piere, DorchesterStephen L. Fletcher
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